oppugn

verb /əˈpjuːn/

1. To contradict or controvert; to oppose; to challenge or question the truth or validity of a given statement.

   rare, transitive

   And virtue invious ways can prove, What may not he confide to do That brings both love and virtue too?

   If nothing can oppugne love,

Where it comes from

From Middle French oppugner Latin oppugno (“fight against, to attack, assail, assault, storm, besiege, war with”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry oppugn (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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